UPDATE: UNCW Graduate Conference (2/15/07; 3/30/07-3/31/07)

We have updated the submission date for the University of NorthCarolina-Wilmington Graduate English Conference. It is now: 15 Feb2007. The actual Conference is still 31 March 2007 with a reading thenight before from various UNCW creative writers. Thanks a lot. UNCWGEA. >Jesse A Lambertson

University of North Carolina WilmingtonGraduate English Association Conference(30-31 March 2007)

Sea Change (s): The Evolution of Texts and Their Reception

Through an interdisciplinary-minded call for papers, the GraduateEnglish Association at the University of North Carolina at Wilmingtonasks: How does or has a single text evolve(d)? What is the impetusfor change and what are the forces that act to resist that change? Onemight explore publication media, social conventions, canonical status(how it is granted or revoked), ideas about textual changes, languagechanges, rhetorical slants, or linguistic arguments, or could followany theoretical guide.

There are, of course, endless sub-questions associated with the largerconcepts above. Some of these sub-questions might grapple with how thecanon has changed, how it has been affected by theoretical frames, howit has been affected by international literature or works intranslation, how works of literature in the canon (define canonyourself) affect rhetorical acts like speeches or political movements,and how texts evolve in our world of easy-change technology andimpermanent digital virtual texts. Thanks to Jean Baudrillard, onemight even ponder whether these virtual digital "texts" are texts atall, considering the ways that document production, editing, andreading have so drastically changed with the full embrace ofcomputers.

Other possible topics might include questions of pedagogy, literatureanalyses of all sorts, rhetorical studies, changes in writing in thephysical sciences that deal with responses to other science writing,artistic analyses, questions of philosophy, arguments of aesthetics,and creative pieces that relate to textual evolution.

Again, papers are welcome from all disciplines that directly orindirectly investigate the above concerns. Please email abstracts of300 words or fewer as an MS Word attachment to uncwgea_at_gmail.com. Thesubmission deadline is 15 February 2007.